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MEN ABOUT TOWN 

A BOOK OF CARICATURES 


By GENE MARKEY 

LITERARY LIGHTS: A Book of Caricatures 
(Knopf, 1923) 



MEN ABOUT TOWN 

A BOOK OF 58 CARICATURES 

by 

GENE MARKEY 



CHICAGO 

COVICI-McGEE CO. 
1924 


COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY COVICI-McGEE CO 

Published, Aprils 1924 


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W. F. HALL PRINTING CO. 
PRINTED IN U. S. A. 


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TO 

COLONEL EUGENE LAWRENCE MARKEY 
WHO MANY YEARS AGO EVINCED THE RIGHT 
IDEA BY ATTEMPTING TO DISSUADE 
ME FROM WASTING TIME IN 
DRAWING FOOLISH PICTURES 














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CONTENTS 


NUMBER 

Aldis, Mr. Arthur .i 

Anderson, Mr. Sherwood.2 

Armour, Mr. J. Ogden.3 

Atwater, Mr. “Riquarius”.4 

Balmer, Mr. Edwin.5 

Bissell, Mr. Arthur.38 

Bodenheim, Mr. Maxwell.6 

Buckley, Mr. George.43 

Butler, Mr. Sheppard.7 

Byfield, The Brothers.8 

Carpenter, Mr. John Alden .... 9 

Collins, Mr. Charles.10 

Darrow, Mr. Clarence.11 

Davis, Mr. Philardee.12 

Dever, Mayor.13 

Donaghey, Mr. Frederick.14 

Erbstein, Mr. Charles.15 

Fairbank, Mr. Kellogg.16 

Fishbein, Dr. Morris.17 

Fuller, Mr. Henry B.18 

Garrity, Mr. John J.43 

Hall, Dr. O. L.19 

Hansen, Dr. Harry ..20 

Hardy, Mr. Guy.23 

Harriman, Mr. Karl Edwin .... 21 

Hecht, Mr. Ben.22 

Houseman, Mr. Lou.23 

Insull, Mr. Samuel.24 

Jones, Dr. Llewellyn.25 

King of the Black Isles, The .... 26 

Kroch, Mr. A.27 









NUMBER 

Lawson, Mr. Victor.28 

Lewis, Senator J. Hamilton .... 29 

Linn, Professor James Weber .... 30 

Little, Mr. Richard Henry . . . .31 

Marshall, Mr. Benjamin.58 

McCormick, Mr. Allister.32 

McCormick, Mr. Harold.33 

McCormick, Colonel R. R .40 

McLaughlin, Maj. Frederic .... 34 

McVeagh, Mr. Eames.35 

Masters, Mr. Edgar Lee.36 

Minotto, Count.37 

Nelson, Mr. Murray.38 

Norton, Mr. John.55 

O’Brien, Mr. Howard Vincent .... 39 

Patterson, Captain J. M.40 

Preston, Dr. Keith.41 

Polacco, Maestro Georgio.42 

Ramsay, Professor William .... 45 

Rice, Mr. Wallace.12 

Ridings, Mr. Harry.43 

Roden, Mr. Carl B .17 

Sandburg, Mr. Carl.44 

Sarett, Mr. Lew.45 

Schaffer, Mr. John C.46 

Shaw, Mr. Howard . . . . . . .47 

Smith, Mr. Henry Justin.48 

Smith, Mr. Wallace.49 

Starrett, Mr. Vincent.50 

Stefansson, Mr. Vilhjalmur . . . .51 

Stevens, Mr. Ashton.52 

Stock, Mr. Frederick.53 

Taft, Mr. Lorado.54 

Tallmadge, Mr. Thomas.55 

Chatfield-Taylor, Mr. Hobart Chatfield 56 

Webster, Mr. Henry Kitchell 57 










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A BOOK OF CARICATURES 


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